Jenna Van Houten

Jenna Van Houten is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) in Ohio with 5 years of professional working experience (6 if inclusive to clinical internship). She brings focused clinical skills to work with stress, anxiety, depression and other mood disorders, along with relationship concerns, communication challenges, and family or group conflicts.

Jenna assists with general life and career exploration and adjustments and helps people address the everyday issues that can interfere with feeling confident and comfortable in their lives. Much of her work has involved youth, young adults, and couples or families from high-risk populations, including those affected by substance use, legal involvement, family disruption and separation, and multiple traumas.

Her therapeutic approach is eclectic and predominantly rooted in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). She places strong emphasis on validating and processing the life experiences that have shaped each person, recognizing that clients are the experts in their own stories and that a therapist’s role is to walk alongside them in support.

Jenna frequently weaves principles of radical acceptance, authenticity and identity development, genuine connection, autonomy, and psychoeducation into sessions. She believes awareness is the first step toward change - you have to know what it is in order to change it - and that people often need to grow through what they go through. Jenna tends to take a casual, conversational stance, blending professionally trained clinical intervention with empathy, humor, and a bit of ‘nerding out’ to strengthen insight, understanding, and empowerment.